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Okay, so I recently placed an offer on a 1045T for $90 on Ebay... thinking that the guy would shoot me down. Well, he accepted it
So, pending the typical Ebay nonsense (bent pins, busted CPU, etc.) I fully expect to be able to push this thing to fold -bigadv's with the WINE method. I read up on the article, and realize that it might not be too far off to do so. I've calculated that I'm going to need a 41% overclock, or reference clock 282 in order to achieve 3.8 Ghz. I have a set of OCZ HPC Reapers that should be able to handle the clock (they're currently running at 5-5-5-18 @960 mhz in my HTPC, so maybe with looser timings or a higher DRAM divider they can handle this). Hopefully temps will be decent under my current cooler, it keeps a 125W 720 X4 (I know it's rated at 95W, but unlocked it's 125W) at 1.41 vCore under 55 degrees, and I've read that some have been able to do up to 4 Ghz on a 1045T at 1.4. If not I'll be getting the AM3 mounting kit for my Megahalems which should handle it like a champ.
Am I being overly optimistic on this, or do you guys think it's impossible? I haven't had a decent folding rig all summer and would like to make up for it. If I can pull this off this might be the most frugal -bigadv folding rig known to man!

So, pending the typical Ebay nonsense (bent pins, busted CPU, etc.) I fully expect to be able to push this thing to fold -bigadv's with the WINE method. I read up on the article, and realize that it might not be too far off to do so. I've calculated that I'm going to need a 41% overclock, or reference clock 282 in order to achieve 3.8 Ghz. I have a set of OCZ HPC Reapers that should be able to handle the clock (they're currently running at 5-5-5-18 @960 mhz in my HTPC, so maybe with looser timings or a higher DRAM divider they can handle this). Hopefully temps will be decent under my current cooler, it keeps a 125W 720 X4 (I know it's rated at 95W, but unlocked it's 125W) at 1.41 vCore under 55 degrees, and I've read that some have been able to do up to 4 Ghz on a 1045T at 1.4. If not I'll be getting the AM3 mounting kit for my Megahalems which should handle it like a champ.
Am I being overly optimistic on this, or do you guys think it's impossible? I haven't had a decent folding rig all summer and would like to make up for it. If I can pull this off this might be the most frugal -bigadv folding rig known to man!